And now, with some color: After we finished up the bulk of our work for the day, we headed into the town of Carson and over to the Carson Hot Springs for a mineral bath and wrap (20 bucks). The main building is the Hotel St. Martin, finished in 1901.…
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We're camping out in the Columbia River Gorge this week. We successfully installed our ProPride hitch yesterday afternoon (with only one trip to an auto parts store to get a couple of shorter bolts) and all seems solid there. The Airstream tows great and hitching and unhitching is fairly easy.…
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Okay so we got this. We were at Best Buy yesterday and we stood in front of it for about 5 minutes tweaking the buttons, admiring it's small footprint and nice design, listening to the quietness of it all, and we just got it. Nickel finish. We'll take it with…
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I'm looking forward to more of this kind of camping. The kind where you meet up with good friends and hang out making food and building fires and drinking wine, generally creating a huge mess in the tiny Airstream kitchen by the end of the night. There's nothing better. (This…
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We're at home now for a few days before heading back out for more Airstreaming. I'm standing here at my desk (actually, I'm standing on the trampoline in front of my standing desk), and hanging on the wall to my right is a thing that I love and wanted to…
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Yesterday when we had a little break in the stormy weather, my mom asked if we could try to get a photo of her with her dogs out on some of the huge driftwood pieces just out from our campsites, near the beach. We ended up with several really good…
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Here's another "out the Airstream window" shot of a container ship heading to Astoria from Portland: Here's so you can see how close the ship channel is to our campsite:
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We had a really nice Mother's Day yesterday here at Skamokawa with my mom. In the morning I made us all Crab Benedict (modified: bed of spinach, fresh Dungeness crab, poached eggs, and a light hollandaise, but I forgot the chives dangit). We had mimosas and some sliced apple and…
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Here are a few shots Kevin took (with the Sony NEX5n mounted on his hexacopter) of our spots at Skamokawa Vista Park. Neat, huh?
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Kevin took this photo last night after dinner as we were gathering around the campfire. We had no marshmallows, but we plan to change that tonight: Tugboat and barge with tiki torches: New solar hanging lamp from Ikea (thanks for the tip, Kathy Harderson!): Here's my mom earlier in the…
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